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April 7, 2008
Boerum Place Getting Spruced Up
Downtown Brooklyn's gritty gateway doesn't exactly scream million-dollar condos and boutique hotels...yet. While those things are being built, the city is busying itself with streetscape improvements like the one above, at right, a stretch of Boerum Place between Livingston and Joralemon Streets, which will also include new sidewalks and curb extensions. According to a Downtown Brooklyn Partnership spokesman, by the end of the summer it should look something like the existing Boerum Place streetscape, above left, creating a continuous planted median from the Brooklyn Bridge to Atlantic Avenue. Next, the city plans to begin its Fulton Street Mall, Flatbush and Myrtle Avenue streetscape improvements. "These projects are creating grand entrances, whether it be coming from the bridge down Flatbush or coming down Flatbush from the other direction," said the spokesman, adding that the improvements includes traffic calming measures and safer pedestrian crossings.
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something positive to come out of this gentrification.
Posted by: guest at April 7, 2008 11:47 AM
What's going on with the torn down garage on corner of Flatbush and Willoughby? They took down the scaffoldings and boards it's wide open. Anybody knows?
Posted by: guest at April 7, 2008 11:50 AM
It's wide open, but there is a chain-link fence around the site. That's where CityPoint, the mixed residential-office-retail building, will or will not be constructed, depending on who you are speaking with.
Posted by: guest at April 7, 2008 12:32 PM
between these projects and bbpark lots of great stuff coming to this area over the next 15 years.
11:50 - that's part of the migration toward demo of the adjacent mall building.
Posted by: BrooklynLove at April 7, 2008 12:32 PM
12:32 - whats the bbpark project?
Posted by: guest at April 7, 2008 12:41 PM
brooklyn bridge park
Posted by: BrooklynLove at April 7, 2008 12:53 PM
12:41pm
"Hello? Hello? Anybody home? Huh? Think, McFly. Think!"
Posted by: guest at April 7, 2008 1:02 PM
So they are making boerum place more attractive and "higher end" all the way to atlantic, because it is a "grand entrance", so that people can be greated by a big, ugly jail. Seems consistent to me.
Posted by: guest at April 7, 2008 1:04 PM
no love or link to mcbrooklyn on this one?
Posted by: guest at April 7, 2008 1:06 PM
1:04pm
Get a job, then save, then invest, then buy, then get a life and quit your constant bitching.
Posted by: guest at April 7, 2008 1:07 PM
making things nice and purty for the prisoners in the house of d.
Posted by: guest at April 7, 2008 1:07 PM
There already are $1MM condos and coops on theo corners of Boerum.
Posted by: guest at April 7, 2008 1:15 PM
I live in 110 Livingston...this is great for the community..but the constant noice from the sledgehammers is unbearable...hopefully they will be done soon..
Posted by: guest at April 7, 2008 1:53 PM
Good luck 1:53 bec Livingston will be a Livinghell for the next 10 yrs with more upcoming constructions planned.
Posted by: guest at April 7, 2008 2:11 PM
where 2:11?
Posted by: guest at April 7, 2008 2:21 PM
Laminated glass windows, aka soundproof glass windows. Get it for your home and the construction noise is a non-issue.
BTW, why is the construction noise bothering you? Shouldn't you be working, or are you one of those lazy stay at home moms bitching about everything that goes on in a city enviroment?
Posted by: guest at April 7, 2008 2:47 PM
hey--i read this story last week on mcbrooklyn-although you have better flowers in your version.
pls. link better
Posted by: guest at April 7, 2008 3:51 PM
We are all hoping that the hotel planned for the parking lot between Livingston and Schermerhorn (behind 110) is on hold until the next real estate cycle. That's the only big construction project ion paper.
and when you live in a coop or condo you can't just change your windows. All you can do is add interior window over them.
Posted by: guest at April 7, 2008 3:54 PM
hey--i read this story last week on mcbrooklyn- your story has better pix of flowers though.
if possible pls link better, so i don't think there's more than beauty projecton boerum place (not that there would be anyhting wrong with that)
Posted by: guest at April 7, 2008 4:04 PM
Agreed 1:53... because there's nothing as annoying as "noice"
Posted by: GHB at April 7, 2008 4:26 PM
the 110 livingston blog had a thing on this too weeks ago i think.
Posted by: guest at April 8, 2008 10:54 AM
I live in a coop 2 blocks away and we just changed our windows. Didn't even have to notify the board.
Posted by: guest at April 10, 2008 1:31 AM
Creating 'grand entrances' with the new plantings is a step in the right direction to improving an ugly streetscape.
How about pulling down the eyesore that is the HOD at the gateway to the new Brooklyn etc. Welcome to Brooklyn ...turn left at the very tall building with barbed wire....
Posted by: emilyposter at April 10, 2008 7:02 PM
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